The Vast Majority: The Rise and Fall of the Arab Spring with Anand Gopal

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Meagan and Micah talk to journalist Anand Gopal, author of the book No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes, about his article in the latest issue of our journal Catalyst, "The Arab Thermidor," on the rise and fall of the Arab Spring.

You can subscribe to Catalyst here: https://catalyst-journal.com/subscribe

Read "The Arab Thermidor" here: https://catalyst-journal.com/vol4/no2/the-arab-thermidor

Read Micah's columns on the American election at novaramedia.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of the vast majority. I'm Jackman Deputy Editor Micah Eutrich
0:06.5	joined by Megan Day. Hi Megan. Hey Micah, what have you been up to? We've been
0:12.4	writing articles for some other entity
0:14.6	besides Jacob and Maxine?
0:15.6	I mean, I wouldn't be offended if you were,
0:17.8	but I was just curious if you were.
0:20.2	It's funny, you bring that up, Megan.
0:22.1	Yes, I've been writing a column for Novara Media
0:25.4	in the United Kingdom.
0:27.4	Got two under my belt so far, maybe even a third
0:30.1	by the time this episode comes out.
0:32.0	They are curious about what's going on with the
0:34.5	dang cheeto and chief they want to know what's going on with with Trump in our
0:38.1	election and so I am the the Whisper to them.
0:43.3	I'm telling them what's going on across the pond.
0:45.6	That's cool.
0:46.6	I don't even feel betrayed even a little bit, like not even a little bit.
0:49.7	I don't know why you would assume that I would feel that way.
0:52.1	I feel really happy for you. I feel really happy for all of your readers at Navarro.
0:56.0	Would you say, you're happy for me?
1:00.0	I would absolutely say that in that precise information, yeah.
1:04.8	Well, I appreciate you bringing that up to allow me to hype myself.
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